Frequently Asked Questions

The Lens Chain is a decentralized Layer 2 infrastructure designed for scalable SocialFi experiences, addressing issues of censorship, data ownership, and monetization. Built on zkSync’s ZK Stack, it aims to empower users with control over their social capital and identity.

zkSync provides scalability, security, and efficiency through advanced ZK compression techniques, making it suitable for handling the high throughput required by social applications while maintaining data integrity.

Validiums are scaling solutions that use ZK compression techniques to post transaction proofs to Ethereum, while keeping state data off-chain. This approach lowers costs, making it ideal for social interactions that don’t require the same security as financial transactions but still need data integrity.

Social transactions use Validium for scalability, while financial transactions can opt for ZK Rollups, providing stronger security with Ethereum DA, creating a flexible system based on transaction type.

Lens Chain uses zkSync’s hyperchains and modular architecture to enable millions of secured transactions per second, ensuring social and financial applications can scale for mass adoption without sacrificing decentralization or security.

Lens Chain focuses on creating a seamless web2-like experience with gasless and signless transactions, stablecoin GHO as gas token, subsecond transaction times, and embedded wallet support, all designed to attract mainstream users.

Testnet tokens can be requested by reaching out to the Lens Team for development purposes.

Lens Chain is on mainnet and open for everyone to explore. Builders can check out the docs to get started. Users can create their accounts and explore the Lens apps. While you don't need any GHO to post on the apps, you'll need it to collect posts. Bridge here.

The key primitives introduced in the new protocol version are the introduction of custom feeds, graphs, re-architecturing / re-naming primitives such Accounts, Rules, Actions, and more. All primitives are flexible, customizable and extendable through Rules. Deploy primitives in minutes on the Developer Dashboard.

The Lens documentation includes references to the API / SDK methods that are available.

The functionality of modules is accessible in the new protocol version through Rules and Actions. Rules are restrictions applied to protocol interactions, and actions are smart contract instances conditionally attached to posts and accounts. See contract documentation for more details on the interfaces for Rules and Actions.

Profiles on Polygon have become accounts on Lens V3, and all has been migrated automatically.

No, your account now lives in Lens Chain alongside your content and your connections.

Please review the migration overview in the docs and contact the Lens team if you need assistance.

Projects should be aware of differences in contract development tooling (custom ZKsync Hardhat and Foundry environments) and EVM compatibility while using Lens Chain-specific tools.

No, there is no deadline but now that Lens Chain is fully active, we have reduced the Momoka rate limits to 0 and are no longer subsidizing Polygon transactions.